The Unusual Insulating Properties of a Superconductor
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Since their discovery, high-temperature superconductors, a class of remarkable materials that conduct electricity with almost zero resistance, have perplexed scientists. Despite many, many studies, how these ...
Mass extinctions - a threat from outer space or our own planet's detox?
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University of Leicester scientists suggest extraterrestrial theories are flawed and that more down to earth factors could have accounted for past mass extinctions Earth history has been punctuated by several mass extinctions ...
Purdue scientist defends his fusion work
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A Purdue University scientist says he will cooperate with a university review of his work in which he claims to have achieved fusion. (see "Purdue investigates professor's tabletop nuclear fusion research") ...
Scientists Working Toward Better Batteries
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As more and more people rely on cell phones, laptop computers, personal organizers, and even hybrid electric-gas vehicles, scientists are working to develop rechargeable batteries that are ever smaller, cheaper, ...
GA Tech develops ultra-efficient embedded architectures based on probabilistic technology
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology announce energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their ultra energy efficient embedded architecture based on Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS).
Move over TiVo, MythTV is here
Mar 09, 2006 |
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Frustrated by the slow, advertising-laden cable experience provided by AT&T Broadband, programmer Isaac Richards took matters into his own hands by coming up with his own solution to the problem.
Satellite reveals Yellowston's deep secret
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Satellite images acquired by ESA's ERS-2 revealed the recently discovered changes in Yellowstone's caldera are the result of molten rock movement 15 kilometres below the Earth's surface, according to a recent ...
NASA finds stronger storms change heat and rainfall worldwide
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Studies have shown that over the last 40 years, a warming climate has been accompanied by fewer rain- and snow-producing storms in mid-latitudes around the world, but the storms that are happening are a little ...
Virus makes classified data go online
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File-share can be a dangerous business, or so Japanese government agencies are finding out the hard way.
Internet tech dazzles FOSE convention
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Perhaps the U.S. government can rest a little easier over its battle with Internet censorship in China, knowing there is software that could circumvent the Chinese's online censor program.
NASA researchers 'see' the sun's far side
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NASA announced Thursday it has, for the first time, seen through the sun to the star's far side.
Chemically squeezing every drop of ethanol from corn
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Brent Shanks is going down to the molecules to find a little extra ethanol. Shanks, an Iowa State University associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, is leading a research team that's working to develop ...
Research on the road to intelligent cars
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Although safety is improving on European roads, every year over 40,000 people die on Europe's roads and 1.4 million accidents occur. Clearly, there is still plenty of work to be done if the EU is to halve road ...
Sematech to Investigate Alternate Channel Materials for Advanced Microchips
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Pushed by the scaling limits of silicon-based devices, Sematech engineers have launched a project to investigate alternative materials to Si in MOSFET channels, the critical pathways that allow electrical signals to flow ...
'Killer bees' arrive early in Tucson
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So-called killer bees have reportedly arrived in Tucson, Ariz., early this year, with a shortage of food on the desert causing colonies to move about.
